Creepy, crude, handmade figures made from wooden clothes pegs which inhabited a child's dolls house. However, a small boy had the power to animate them by making his fears come to life. George was actually an alien Tenza - a psychic race who planted their children within other cultures to be looked after. This was what enabled him to turn nightmares into reality, but he was too young to control his powers, especially when frightened.
The original dolls had belonged to George's mother, but once animated by him they could then turn people into creatures like themselves - after they had been transported into the dolls house. Amy Pond was temporarily turned into one. Whilst most were female in appearance, there was also a Redcoat Soldier doll. They could communicate in childlike voices and sometimes sang nursery rhymes.
The dolls were rendered harmless, and their victims restored, once George mastered his fears.
Appearances: Night Terrors (2011)
- Other living wooden dolls appeared in The Celestial Toymaker (1966) in the form of the dancing ballerinas.
- Mark Gatiss stated that he came up with these figures as he found dolls creepy. Visually, they are based on 18th Century examples from Germany and the Netherlands.
- Peg Doll costumes have appeared at the Doctor Who Experience and, top, the 2025 Peterborough Museum exhibition:
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